The design you've made, in the first photo, is so painterly, an abstract, so beautiful. It reminds me of early botanical art, and also the artist, whose name I cannot recall at the moment, who used flowers and fruits and vegetables in human-like portraits - last name began with a B...they say the first thing to go is the mind.

Martha, thanks so much for your generous appreciation. Yes, these scans I do remind me of early botanical art because of the black background, something I discovered by accident. As for the artist using flowers and fruits and vegetables in human-like portraits, I thought at first you were thinking of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, but I do see what you mean about Bosch too.

Heavens! I had the wrong name, Marja-Leena. It is, as you thought, Giuseppe Arcimboldo's fantasy portraits I thought of, though that was a bit of a stretch, I suppose, since you didn't form a human shape.

I think it is the lush colors, the intimate shapes of the flower parts, that put me in mind of Arcimboldo's works.

Martha, again many thanks! Long ago I did do batiking but no, I don't do fabric design work, though it interests me. I don't have enough time and energy for all the many things that I'd love to do, there need to be more of me! I decided years ago to focus and be the best I can in printmaking instead of thinning myself out.